Students surely to get textbooks on 1 Jan: Edn minister
UNB
Dhaka: Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Tuesday assured that primary and secondary students will surely get their new textbooks on the very first day of January 2016 as they got in previous years.
‘Our NCTB is now very mature. As we didn’t fail at the first time and even we couldn’t be resisted by torching books to reach those to the students in time, our NCTB this time will also give the students new books on the 1st of January,’ he said.
Speaking at a workshop, the minister further said, ‘We want to assure all that there’s no reason to doubt whether we’ll be able to reach the books in time in the coming new academic year as we’re sincerely working on it, and the new quality books will reach every student in due time.’
The NCTB (National Curriculum and Textbook Board) organised the workshop on raising awareness about minimising the risk of disaster and facing problems relating to climate change at its Motijheel office.
Textbooks experts, educationists and teachers participated in the daylong workshop.
The minister said raising awareness among people is necessary to tackle social and natural disasters and the climate change-related problems.
He said the government has included various chapters on preparedness of natural disasters, including earthquake and climate change, have been included in the textbooks to make the new generation aware of those matters.
The ministers urged the teachers to make the students understand the issues easily in a friendly manner so that they can share those things their parents and others after going back home and thus make them aware.
Apart from the textbooks, Nahid said, the NCTB prepared several other books for students on natural disasters and those will be sent to different school libraries across the country.
He also urged the teachers to encourage the students to read those books collecting from the libraries.
The minister said the main objective of education is to build up the new generation as modern and wise citizens so that they can globally represent the country and brighten its image.